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Broadway producer Keven McCollum closed ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ with a plan to return in the spring, he says, to save the show, but theater unions are skeptical.

The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program was meant to help the live entertainment industry, but operators who appear to qualify for aid have been denied.

Despite a string of cancellations, and at least two closed productions, Broadway won’t be shutting down as Covid surges in New York City.

Just a week before Christmas Eve, “The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes” announced it would end its 2021 season early.

In 2020, Georgia was home to an estimated 242 film productions that added $2.2 billion to the state’s economy.

12-year-old Celina Smith says it was “heartwarming” to play the titular role in “Annie Live,” a new rendition of the popular musical now streaming on Peacock. Some fans have told her they’ve never seen a Black girl play Annie before – “you don’t see a lot of people that look like me on television because we don’t get representation that...

When the pandemic turned the lights off on Broadway, the casts and crews of its shows suddenly found themselves out of work and with their dreams on hold. They included Nik Walker, of “Hamilton” and “Ain’t Too Proud,” and Bonita Hamilton, a 17-year-veteran of “The Lion King.” Now Broadway is back. NBCLX contributor Michelle Park and producer Mackenzie Behm take...

Broadway hits Hamilton, Wicked and The Lion King will be among the first musicals to open at 100% capacity. None sold out their first week of performances.

Pop-up drive-in movie theater Newark Moonlight Cinema has plans to stick around beyond the Covid pandemic, its co-founders told CNBC on Wednesday.

The Broadway League announced Friday that it will require vaccinations for audiences, performers, crew and staff.

“AMC is our partner, not our competitor,” Imax CEO Richard Gelfond told CNBC on Monday “Their liquidity is good for us.”

“Hamilton” received a $30 million grant from the government’s program for shuttered businesses and could receive up to $20 million more.

The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program got off to a glitchy start, and applicants say there continue to be problems.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that Broadway theaters will reopen just after Labor Day at full capacity.

The cast appears at first chatting amiably as they enter a theater.

“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” is getting the Broadway treatment as an all-star streaming event after a social media ode to the 2007 Disney Pixar film became a hit with over 20 million views. Daniel Mertzlufft, the NYC based composer who started the social movement, joined LX News to talk about the virtual concert and how it will do some good...

The lights on Broadway are set to remain dark until at least January, but there will be a plethora of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with a handful of self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.

The Olney Theatre Center has had to furlough more than 50% of its full-time staff as it struggles to get by during the pandemic. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports how the theater hopes to survive.

Germany’s Berliner Ensemble theater company’s before-and-after pictures with half the chairs removed hint at how theaters may look when they reopen.

Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer’s demands. Theatergoers leaving a celebrated revival of Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” in 2011 were greeted by the playwright himself, deep in his 70s by then, handing out leaflets outside the Broadway theater demanding they do more to stop AIDS. “Please know that AIDS is a worldwide plague. Please know there is...